My daughter and I decided to write a review of Red Rising from the perspective of a 40-year-old mother and a 14-year-old daughter who don't always see eye to eye in matters of literature. Will we be of the same mind when it comes to Red Rising?

The strangest thing about this post-apocalyptic obsession is that the post-apocalypses we see are almost always beautiful. It's an odd kind of wishful thinking. A clean slate is always romantic, after all.

"Blueprints from the Afterlife" is set in a world still reeling and recovering from an apocalyptic era so catastrophic that no one can agree on what actually went down. Here are some un-helpful customer reviews of various products that show up in this strange new age.